"I can remember that we sent a Flat Stanley to Australia and it came back and the people told us it had spent some time in a kangaroo's pouch," Hubert said.Īmanda Zych of Big Brothers Big Sisters in Cleveland, Ohio, calls Flat Stanley a valuable learning tool. Ten years later, Stanleys have traveled as far afield as Afghanistan, Antarctica, Africa - and even with astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery. It wasn't long before they spread to Hawaii, New York and Florida. The project ended its first year with 13 participating classrooms - with Stanleys traveling in Ontario. Students read the book, write new stories about Stanley and send them to other students in far-away classrooms. The program is designed to improve the reading and writing skills of elementary school students while they learn about new people and places. And that just seemed like a way of communicating that grade-three students might enjoy." "Stanley's parents rolled him up, put him in an envelope and mailed him to his friend in California. "In the book, by Jeff Brown, Stanley gets squashed flat by a falling bulletin board," said Dale Hubert, a Canadian third-grade teacher who created the Flat Stanley Project. The paper cutout started a buzz on February 27 when actor/director Clint Eastwood carried him along on the red carpet at the Oscars.īut since 1995, hundreds of thousands of elementary school students worldwide have sent the character across the globe as part of the Flat Stanley Project, a reading program centered on paper cutouts of the title character from the 1964 children's book "Flat Stanley."
Not bad for a tiny, thin guy made out of paper.
(CNN) - Flat Stanley: successful teacher, world traveler, goodwill ambassador and now Hollywood celebrity.
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